Support The Sunflower Fund’s sms campaign
The more donors on the Registry, the more hope patients suffering with leukaemia and other life threatening blood disorders have of finding their 1:100 000 donor match.
This Festive Season The Sunflower Fund is running a sms campaign and urge all South Africans to spare a thought and take the time to SMS “SUNFLOWER” to 40555 to donate R20 to The Sunflower Fund as they believe that ‘Hope begins with you’.
(SMS charged at R20. Free sms’s do not apply. Revenue paid to the charity is subject to network operator fees & administration fees).
Our Christmas wish is that all patients, in need of a life-saving blood stem cell transplant, find their match and go onto have happy and fulfilled lives.
Our wish for 2017 is to see South Africans doing something extraordinary by supporting our cause by either becoming a blood stem cell donor, donating funds, volunteering or participating in our campaigns and events.
This will offer the hope of life to so many patients in need of a life-saving blood stem cell transplant. Please look out to see how ordinary people can do extraordinary things whilst supporting The Sunflower Fund in 2017. #hopebeginswithyou.
The Sunflower Fund is a non-profit organisation whose sole purpose is to raise money to create awareness, to educate and to pay for the tissue typing of potential blood stem cell donors for inclusion on the South Africa Bone Marrow Registry.
The more donors on the Registry, the more hope patients suffering with leukaemia and other life threatening blood disorders have of finding their 1:100 000 donor match.
It is very unlikely that this life saving donor match will be found outside a patient’s ethnic group which means in South Africa 100 000 donors of each of the four prominent ethnic groups (Black, Coloured, Indian and White) need to be educated and recruited.
Although it only takes two test tubes of blood to become a donor it costs R2000 to tissue type this blood sample before it can be included on the Registry.
The Sunflower Fund’s toll free number (0800 12 10 82) is closed between the 15th December 2016 and the 9th January 2017.
If you are interested in becoming a donor for any patient with leukaemia or a life threatening blood disorder, please contact The Sunflower Fund in the New Year.
For more information on becoming a donor visit www.sunflowerfund.org.za
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